Let's look at ten small places in our lives where we are trying to do the impossible and where, as a result of our misunderstanding, we are still sow… - Guy Finley

You are going to have to struggle with something that you have never struggled with before. I am talking to you about it now. I am talking to you about the fact that your whole life to date has been in an effort to control what you see as being finite. The whole of life for human beings, predicated on the idea that one must acquire power in order to overpower conditions that will not give them what they say they need in order to have a fixed sense of security and well-being.

We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized.

Real compassion lies within our ability to remember that an angry, vengeful or hateful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.